read

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Meaning

1. To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
2. To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
3. To read work(s) written by (a named author).
4. To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
5. To consist of certain text.
6. Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
7. To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
8. (informal) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
9. To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
10. To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
11. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
12. To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
13. To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
14. To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
15. To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
16. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
17. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
18. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.

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inhere in

get learning

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try to make out

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address

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹiːd/

From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”). Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess, counsel, rede”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). The development from ‘advise’ to ‘interpret, interpret letters, read’ is unique to English among Germanic languages. Compare rede.